Saturday, March 28, 2015

The New York Times recently wrote
an article
about the Chinese middle class and the maze of red tape citizens here experience. For example, the article talks about married women having to get a mandatory birth permit which actually expires after two years, and applying for student loans require as many as 26 official seals on various documents. Although I've only been here for five months, I totally get that article. And the funny thing is that I thought German bureaucracy was terrible. It really isn't. Here are some of my observations comparing the two, though of course this is only just scratching the surface.

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I'm an American who moved abroad to Berlin, Germany in my third year of college. I wound up sticking around and moved to Düsseldorf, so this blog evolved into talking about pop culture too (I'm a pop culture geek). But then I decided to move to Shanghai, China. So I'm an expat squared, or "expat hoch zwei," if I may say so in Denglish. These are my adventures.